GERMS LIVE 26 YEARS.
A REMARKABLE EXPERIMENT. (BRITISH OTFICIAL WIBELESS.) RUGBY, November 30. The "Evening Standard" learns that a remarkable result has followed an experiment made with deadly germs by Sir William Simpson, director at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases. Twenty-six years ago Sir William Simpson placed in a test tube bacilli taken from a patient suffering from one of the most dreaded of diseases.
The tube was sealed, and for all those years has remained so.
Now Sir William Simpson has devoted his attention to discovering whether the germs are still alive. To his astonishment he found them to be alive. A guinea-pig was inoculated with them, and, after showing well-known symptoms of the disease, it died. Further work is proceeding, it being recognised that in the light of such a happening it may become nocessary to revise completely the views previously held on the longevity of bacilli.
It is said that the longest period hitherto in which life has persisted in a culture of this kind is one year.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19173, 2 December 1927, Page 9
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171GERMS LIVE 26 YEARS. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19173, 2 December 1927, Page 9
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